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UN-OFFICE, HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK. 1 14,, 418LF.,' ATTENIP I' ON THE LIFE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON U° last Wednesday night, as the Duke of \I'Et44%,GToN Was returning to his Hotel in Paris, as fi red at just as he bad readied the door I Nt • 4141 haupilv bout effect. It is hoped that ; 'l4e l'As b een found by which the Assassin will aedi6covereditud ironglit to punishment. We have ' often avowed our sentiments respecting the t atred o f the French towards the English, Aat " e have felt, and declared our alarm lest execrable attempt wonld be made upon Ll re of ti►is Conqueror of France, for its safet y and the Deliverer of Europe, that ti ~ ° 4l) kixt4 we feel honor on the occasion, it is not * jib sorprize. LXTRAORDINARY STORY. ue following report is at this moment current h ia un "! the higher circles, and, from a recent event, I t /: h e expected to excite general at tention.- 14. "'id that a hate Peer, was wirt his Lady, , a wlth er Lady who was und er hi s pro . 11 , eti .". many, years ago iu P ar i s , w h ere b ot h b ere d elivered at the same period, the first of a 40ghter and the latter of a Son. It is that a late celebrated Accoucheur attended and by the instigation of the Mother of the .fln, was induced to exchange the Children, so ll 'at this Son became the Heir of the Family Title and Possessions. It is said, that the Mother q the Son has been lately seized with feel. in gs of contrition, and has openly declared the lk -h.(ile truth. It 'it If, th ere f ore, her evidence is ad ht"' the nominal h e i r willbe deprived o f a ll hi s ()flours and possessions. We cannot, of course, 10 ‘'elt for the truth of any part of this elttraortli .l):•rY re port, which, indeed, seems to be incredible, :4 as a P olitic Journalist, which o ug ht t o chew ler Y age and bud of the time, its form and it ` -3 we feel it to b e ou r d u ty t o p resen t c): " Readeeß • n u SE-Ill' NEWS. • 1 .• the River ‘ 1 ,;\, 1 ‘ 1 311. 13.-- , Caine down hom ‘I'LLIAmsoN, for Valparaiso and e ne' i r iltrcttiNsosi, for St. Domitiv;); 14/ e lariter, Tir.atti", for Jamaica ; Jo in e'iatd V oss, f • Bmien ; Magner, GRAVES, ltt t~tl f ,r Eci,p se , BrzooK, for Smyrna ; Castle -11 t , 1 Y d ' O R timN,o N. •• Duchess o f DI for Lidia ; and LACY, 'for Jamaica.—Th e whole h.uve t ltr : the o u t ward.:bound as per last, except -st 'e liittitl which shi remains, with the A p i t l ", fy , por Indi a , an d t h e O cean, for Honduras. t v i : S(l, and sa il e d for the River, the Gladwin, p 4 ' t s l P.Nr, from St. Michael's. tii„: r iqouT n , FEB. 13.—Sailed the Ceres, A t v tor Afri ca . torr c i la Nu Tit, FEI3. 1 I.—The brig Aurora, re. night, has damag e d h er groun d t i er. N,,, ru •`' L 'f, Fen. 7 . —C ame i n t h e J ust, from Iler o n f Bud on the 9th, his Majesty's brig r''m entice. 4 , 1'131. 12.—arrived off red this port the a . vlartltor,•;,;. 1-) Av F lsoN, from Milan ; passed ottotti i~ l y ess el at th e en t rance o f th e Cattegat, rIN I V ERSITY INTELLIGENCE. 11: 3x1 ;7") P e ea. 13 —On Wednesd a y l as t th e ?s"O43S Cott-,M.A. and Fellow of Trinity v ' e ' "' 1) 41111)6 (Ige was admitted ad eundem in tins Niversity, • the followitic were admitted to Degrees : ktv T BActirmo ß TN DIVINITY ., • homas Tlmistall Ilaverfield, Fellow of C. C. C. k tv. M ASTRRS OF ARTS. co,sdwar.t Henley Acton, of Braseirose CoB rge, Grand lkoz , •" Pounder. 1414;;*:‘'v()°'.1':li'A(1a(nk';1-j Fellows gitrnirersity College. 4lter Stevenson. Hallidey, of 'Exeter College. b. BACHELORS OF ART S . is'il i rown, of Qu een 'S C o ll eg e . F:, ° ti amT lara Cdaister, o f U n i vers i ty College. Ph"Federix C ox, of Lincoln College. • tt, i Martin Smith's Wall, M.A. St u d en t o f Ch r i st ,Itt.tra•T'l,,is appointed one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to hie ive a the Prince Itc&ent,, and Chaplain t o th e E m - s:• :). • ileY. lean El. Pearcc, B. A, of Christ Church, in this (jai •is elected a Vi car Ch ora l of Hereford Cathedral. I 'l..; " ""l ) .—The Ili verenit Ch;.rles Mani), A. B. to %he. Cur;-ocy of West Dereham, Norfolk; patron, t (4r) rgi! Leorroil jenviis, of Bottishain, Camhridge t,";",, Prebendary •o ' I • Elc.—:'..he Reverend John Wick!lls, nretOry of Nlioiston e , D orse t ; patron, the 'tight 41 • "'u'4l,le Lord Bon The oghroli,.. Rev. Ge orge Walker, r{llow of 'trinity College Cambridge, to the Rectory F;verartl, Cambridgeshire, vacated hy the 'dean; ' C tiqii;:ev. J. W. Rose; patrons, the Master and Fellows o .. I ,:e Schem e of the present Lottery, which v, tr " bas formed agreeab ly to the suggrestions• of ~,i,t)tt Correspondeins, which with 100 Capitals, I,,,lL'ilis Three of 30,0001. has become highly po- . 1r, i 1 :,. The restoration of the ohl method o f 11-i,;l'l"q, namely', that each Number should de- I)." its own t ate and no• other, and that the, , ,„),, t souk! he all paid in Sterling Maury, has 1 been desired by the Public. From the very r, ti ,, , It isi tt, II .I,,,fer eller sliewt ) by Adventurers at f 1, , if' Offices, he is likely to reap the reward o ‘,1,.- iabottrs ; the mobetoos liS . ts of Capitals of 1,,,,, i '. 1 ' i'e can b oat the sale .in former Lotteries, ;i 0 'lP"lii,ly his sale of all the Three Prizes of 1%, ‘()"°1 . his sale o f the • tw o .yews since, , and h () : , ",', s hizes of 20,000/. in the last Lottery, Sett ect;re hi•to this prefereuee, even if the pre- kt bchen:e were not of his for:liali°ll' PAR LTA ME NT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, FEB. 13. The House proceeded in Appeals. Mr. Mil ford, from the Treasury, presented Annual Ac coun•s respecting the Herring Fishery ; and Mr. Sewell, from the Stamp-office, an Account of Licenses granted to the issuers of Bank Notes.— Ordered to lie upon the Table SECRET COMMITTEE. Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH presented, by com mand of the Prince Regent, another Sealed Bag of .Papers, which was order-d to he referred to the Secret Committee.—Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MI'CELLANEOtTS, Accounts were presented from the Bank, of Bank Notes and P , st Rills in circnlaiion last 'ear. A 1;il1 In , paring Aberdeen, and supplying it with waater, was read a fir,t time. Nubsiernus Petitions for Enclosures, Roads, &v. were received ; one was for a new road train Greenwich to Wool wich. Petitions were received for ICRI'e to erect a New Bridge over t he Thames at Rotherhithe, and for one over the Thames at Hammersmith. Mr. DOUGLAS' presented a Petition from the Burgh of l'inifries, praying for certain Regulations concerning Expen diture, &c. Some coiaversation occurred, in which the Lord Advocate and Mr. W. Dundas took part : the tatter objected to a Rill on the petition of a single Burgh, and made some remarks mitre manner most, advisable for auditing Accounts, which might be returns to the Exchequer. Lord A. HAMILTON assented to - the petition, which was ordereno lie on the Table, and to be orbited. Mr.-DOUGLAS presented a Petition at the same tendency from the Merch.i ats, Tlurgesses, &c. of Dithifries. - -Ordered to lie on the ta'.lc, and to printed. Mr. MELLISH presented a Petition from the Parish of St. Pancras respecting Poor's It tes. Sir EGERTON lIRMGES postponed his motion on copy. 7 rights till the 3d March. CONVENIENCE OF VOTERS. - - Mr. C. W. WYNN sairi , tie bad a petition put into his hands to present of rather a peculiar nature. It was from the Rev. Mr. Ho?tues, mho held the perpetual curacy of Sandarre in Derbyshire, and a curacy in another county. He .vas u freeholder in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leicester shire, but cold not give his vote for those places without the time, trouble, and ex pence of travel ling. He thereiore prayed that the votes of elec tors at a distance migbt be taken by affidavit.— Ordered to lie on the table. ELECTION LAW AMENDMENT BILL. The Report of the Election [4:4w Amendment Bill was taken into fru-titer consideration, and the Bill was re-committed Mr. WY NN hoped Gentlemen who had any al terations to propose in the Bill now before the House would take this opporruni , y of bringing them I , rward, as this was the stare in which they could be most conveniently received. Besides the UvivetsHes of Oxford and Cambridge, he wished t') except the Ci.y of Londan from the operation of the pro , sions which it contained for I:miting the duration of Polk, as the manner in which the city elections were . always conducted made it unnecessary to alter the law with respect to them. ;Mr. LOCK-TART thought that clause of the Bill ohjection.ible which wept to provide, that it a riot took plac. on any day during the election, theSheritf. or Returning Otfiz!er, should hare power to adjourn the poll to another day. It it might thus be adjourned from the second to the third, - it might be adjourned in like manner from the third to the fourth, and so on, anti in some cases it might so happen that when a candidate was satisfied he should not be able to procure 400 votes in the two first days—the number neces sary to keep the poll open—that he Would set his own party on to make a riot, that he might thus gain another day to bring up his forces. The clause was the more objectionable as it did not say where the riot must take place to authorize this adjournment, and consequently a riot at a considerable distance might be used as a pretext for doing so, though it had nothing to do with the election. At present he had no remedy to suggest, brit be had thought it right to throw out these observations. Mr. IVYN N said, it appeared to him that in the case supposed the discretion of the returnin l z of ficer must be 4' xcrcised, and it he acted improperly he would doubtless be liable to the severe censure of that House. Mr LoCKHART knew of no remedy for the evil of which he had spoken, but by suffeting the poll, in the cases he had supposed, to be kept open only for those who should smear ihey had been prevented from coming up before by the riots. Some further discussion took place on the other clauses of the Bill, in which Mr.. Barnet, Lord Liscelles, Sir M. %V. Ridley, Mr. Wynn, and Mr. Bankes participated, after which they were agree ed to, as was a new clause proposed by Mr. Wynn, which went to give the Sheriff or Return ing Officer, during the tint' of an election, the au thority of a Juitice of the Peace. The House then resumed, Mr. Brogdeu reported, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday, and to be printed. _ _ BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Mr. D. GIDDY Presented a Petition from the President and Memb e rs of the Board of Agricul ture, praying for the grant of a sum of n.oney iu aid‘of their tends, in the present year. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated the Petition to be recommended by the Crown. • Ordered to lie on the table. On the motion of Mr. GoßcoN, Accounts of the Sums expended within the last year on Plymouth Dock and Liues, were ordered to be laid before the House. CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS. The Chimney -sweepers' Regulation Bill was read a second time, and committed for Monday. PETITIONS. Mr. BENNET presented, a Petition from Joseph Mitchell, of Liverpool, one of the nntortunate persons lately confined under the Habeas Cor pus Suspension Act. Whether this person was or was not entitled to credit, he must leave to those who knew" him better than be (Mr. Bennet) Alid: He, however, had no reason to believe his state,: ment other than correct ; the hardships he had suffered were great, and to him it appeared he had a claim to the protection of the House. As the petition 'as very long, and only stated what had been previously brought before the House . , he did not wish the ‘vlsole of it to be read. The prayer of the petition, which celled upon tbe'House not to grant Ministers a BM of In demnity to , preclude the petitioner front set king that redress to which he was entitled, was then read, and the petition was ordered to lie on the table. On its being moved by Mr. BaNNIST that it should be printed, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked if there were nothing offensive in its language ? Mr. BENNET said, the petitioner complained of the ha - rdsbips he bad endured, but the Liuguage of the petition was not disrespectful to the House. Th e petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. BENNET then presented a - petition from Thomas Evans, another of the persons who had been Confined tinder the Suspension of the liabe,is Corpns Act. • This he did not desire to have read, as it only .recapitulated various petitioni which had been presented to the Home before. But he bad to state, the petitioner expressed much asto nishment at some of the allegations of his former petitions having been denied.. lie had stated no thing that he was not prepared to prove at their bar, and he prayed lor an i ,, quiry into the whole of the late proceedings.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BENNET having moved that the petition should be printed, Sir M. %V. RIDLEY rose to notice the conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the last petition. The Right lion. Gentleman, after it had been ordered to lie on the table, had askeciit it , contained any thing offensive, on its being 'Moved that it should be printed'. He submitted to the House, that . any thing that was fit to lie on their table was tit to lae printed. Mr. WY N N could not agree that because -a pe tition was suffered to lie on the table, that it fol lowed a matter of course it was fit to be print ed. Petitions were printed for the use of the Members, and therefore he thought the House might be safely and properly allowed to use their discretion as to whether they should or should not be printed. In many cases they might be dis posed to bear a complaint, though not to give it currency by printing it. Lord FoutesToNE thought the strongest argu ment that could be used for printing petitions was the s(wernent that they were printed for the use of the MeMbers of that House. How could the Members noderstand what these petitions wereom less they were printed Would it be said that the Members might go one at a time and read them at the table Was this the way they were to be come acquainted with them ? Till within the last nine months,. all petitions had been regularly printed. Since be had been in Parliament, it was common to print all petitions at full length. Since it had become usual to abbreviate them, and now it was a question whether they should be printed at all. He thought a great insult to the peopl , , whose servants and whose representatives they were, for them to _say that what they thought fit to .lie on their table ought not to.be printed. ,He should be sorry to see that time arrive- when a mo tion for pi int ing a petition should be negatived by the House. . • The periOon was ordered to,be.printed. SUFFERIN(S UNDER THE SUSPENSION ACT. sir.BBNNET next jor(:spuittd a petition from another person who had been confined under. the ['Meat Corpus Suspension Act, of the name of William Ogden, a man 74. years of age. He complained of having been, heavily ironed, and otherwise most harshly treated during his confile went, in consequence of which he feared he should never be able to follow his employment again. He had been thus punished because he had been an Advocate for Parliamentaty Reform ; though he had, paid taxes many Years,and brought up 17 children by his two wives.. He declated to God that he had .done no wrong, and prayed the House not to pass a Bill tit Indemnity to screen Niinisters, and preclinle him tiout obtaining that redress to which he was entitled. `l';►e petition was, ordered to. lie on the table, and to be pi inted. Un tke motion of Mr. RENNET, the petition of Benbow, presented.on a former night, was ordered to be printed. Sir F. BUDETT said he had a netition to present, and from the scenes which had lately been dis closed, he could almost fancy himself, un der- the (government of the Dey of Algiers. The petition be held in his hand was from one of those persons who had been so -illegally impri soned, and not less illegally set at liberty, with out being first brought before any tribunal where the parties might establish their innocence.. He _hoped these petitions would not lie idly on the table ; but this he knew they would not, as one notice had already been given of a motion on the subject.. The petition he now presented was from John- Stewart, a-weaver in Glasgow, who had been apprehended by the Sheriff of Lanark in Fe bruary last, and confined for seven weeks and three days. The petitioner described himself to have been subjected to great hardships while in prison, and to have sustained much injury in his circumstances from the expenceS which the pro ceedings - had thrown on . him.. He prayed the House to afford him relief. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. . Sir F. BURDETT presented a petition from cer tain of the parish' of ; St. George's, Hanover-square, signed by 20 names. The pe tition prayed for Reform in 'Parliament, cen sured the present Government, • condenuied the Suspensinn , of the Habeas Corpus Act, and de ekred if their .prayer were not attended to, they would resist by not paying the taxes: LUrd CASTLEREAGH- thought 'at- first the word rt-sist" - -had been used but in a" constitutional sense by the petitioner's . . But when they:letiared - they; would not pay taxes, a queition arose 'quite distinct (ruin' that of Parliamentary Reform, and be should now move that thiS petition be' re jectee •'• Srr '.'BURDETTwas of opinion the parties only threrlientii to refuse to pay taxes as the conse- Ttertee of 'their nut 'being represented in Par liament. The manner in which the word ", resist" was used did not necessarily imply unconstitution al resistance; • . - Lord, GA . STLEREAGH referred to the words of the petition; which ran thus :—" If your Houour4ble House will not itike into' your most serious eon t,ideratiuu, and comply with our prayer, by grant_ ing a Ilvforrn in Parliament, your petitioners mnst errantly resist by not payirig loxes." The petition was II en rejected. -- - Sir F. IieRDETT piesented five petitions from Bath, each signed by 20 names,- praying for a lieform in Paitiiimrnt.—Ortiered to lie on the table. FINANCE. Mr. BROGDEN brought pip the Report of the thirty millions Exchequer Bills Bill. Mr. TiaaNEY'pvi,hed to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer a - question. (Y . the 39,000,0001. the Right 1 - i!m.Gentleinari bad moved for on it former nitlit, he now proposed to rake but 30,000,000/, and this sum he had stated would be enough to carry on the public business till after Easter. He wished to know what w'as to become of the 6,000,000/. due to the Bank, which was to •be paid early in the month of April ? He wi,,hed to know if in'this 30,000,000 1 . a provision was made for paying the B.oik ? • 'flee CIIANCEL,LoR of the ExCHEFIVER ivas nn tierstood to say, that unquestionably the 30,000,0001. would'he sufficient, not only to cover the current expenditure, but also ro pay, (if it were net essary to pay it in one sum,) the 6,000,0001. due to the Bank .It was, however, expected, and indeed he took it for granted, that this would not he the case, but that the payment would be gradually made as should best suit the convenience of both parties, Mr. TIERNEY presumed it was one of the lea , t considerations whether the payment should Le made in one sum, or in more than one. What 1 e wished. to know was, whether it would be in any I.'t ay paid by the• period at which the bargain cvith the Bank should expire ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said no part of the 6,000,000/. was to be paid to the Bank before the sth April. By that time the Loan would be in,:he course, of payment. Mr. TIERNEY supposed he was then to under stand that on the sth April the Bank was in souse way or other to be paid in money. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not say toe Bank would-, by that time, be paid the whole in one sum, but the payments, n I,en the sth of April should arrive, would have commenc.* in the way that might best accord with the mu tual convenience of the Bank and the country. — As much would be paid by the, sth April as the, Bank expected to receive. . Mr. TIERNE Y di:l not know how the mutual convenience of both parties could be consulted its the business. He should suppose payment at once would be most convenietit to the party that was to receive money. ,If he understood the Chancellor of the Exchequer right, what he had now said knocked otethe head all that he had ad vanced on a former ,night. He had endeavoured to tie him down on this subject to something spe cific„ by licking whe:her the Bank was to be paid the .6,000,0001. -it was to receive, in money or in Exchequer Bills.. The answer given to this ques tion was most important. It had,been seen how it affected the country,.. when it • was stated that the payment- was to he made in money ; but after sant hail just fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchequer they were all at sea again. If out of the 6„000,0001. which had been borrowed but 'one pond should 'he - giveo to the Bank, it wig ht be said the payment bad commenced, and the rest was to be gt actually discharged at some time or other. But this was impottant to the country, as the Bank would make their not having been paid an arg u ment for their ,not resuming cash pay ments. Every body bad understood . that 'he 6,000,0001. was to be paid in money. It was now secu, that of the sum voted (39,000,0001.), only 30,000,0001. was taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the payment which was to be gradually msde was in fact deferred. It was (Mt. cult to say why he,should havegot the 39,000,0001. voted in supply, and then declined taking it, to pay off the loan which he had called on the House to satisfy.. He might have good reason for doing one of these things, hut he did not see how the Right Hon. Geutlemon could feel justifier) in doing both. But out of the 30,000,0001. he had said there would be paid as huge a proportion of the loan as the Bank expected to receive by the time. which had been named. Was there then any un derstanding between the Bank and the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the payment of the Loan should be postponed ? If there were, be ought to let it be known, that they might start fair. He (Mr. Tierney) was, the morewas, anxious for an ex plicit answer on this head, as a rumour was abroad,—he had, indeed, heard it positively as serted that day,—t hat the payment of the Loan in money had never been in contemplation. In short things were now in such a state that no,. body knew what :he Chancellor of the Exchequer was driving ar. it only required the simple qua lification of knowing the English language to un derstand, from the explanation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the other night, the direct con trary of what it • now appeared to-be his intention to do. • What bad happened in the mean time to change those intention& he knew not. Only this was to be learned from the experience in the pre sent case—that whoever asked a question of the Chancellor of the Exchequer must wait a fort ight before he - could expect to hear the answer which it was really intended to give. The Cliaslcat.Lott of the EICHEQUEIt.—Ntit • Withstanding all that was said by the Bight Hon. Gentleman, he was - convinced that no other per son in the House Could have misunderstood what he said on the occasion adverted to 'by the light Hon. Gentleman. •On that occasion the Right lion. Gentleman distinctly asked whether the six millions was to be paid in money or by an ex change of Exchequer Bills. To that be as dis tinctly replied, that the payment was to be in money. No question was asked as .to the time when the payment was to be made, whether on the sth April or at any other time ; and therefore nothing as to the time was said by bite in his an swer.—(Hear, hear !)-He said, that even if the payment were made by an issue of Exchequer Bills, as these would necessarily be paid oft in money, his answer must at all events have dis tinctly implied, that at some rime or other the pay ment would be made in money. The only ques tion which he Was asked was, as to the mode of payment ; and as thtq was all tlqat was asked, it must be all that he could be understood to an swer.—(Hear, hear !)—As to the time when